Honestly regardless of the illegality of what he did by tresspassing onto a computer and gaining access to confidential data; he did the right thing. And by punishing him for doing the right thing, the legal system is sending a message that basically says, "If you find something broken don't tell anyone or we will get ya". This kind of behavior promotes the "f the system" hacker mentality and in reality damages us all by allowing those holes to remain and be hacked by someone up to no good.
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Honestly regardless of the illegality of what he did by tresspassing onto a computer and gaining access to confidential data; he did the right thing. And by punishing him for doing the right thing, the legal system is sending a message that basically says, "If you find something broken don't tell anyone or we will get ya". This kind of behavior promotes the "f the system" hacker mentality and in reality damages us all by allowing those holes to remain and be hacked by someone up to no good.